Best 292 quotes in «tennis quotes» category

In America you're conditioned to regard everything as a contest. You have to make the Ten Best Dressed List, win this, win that. It drives me nuts sometimes. Who cares, for Christ's sake?

In corporate levels, it's all about tailoring your shirt and which tennis club you belong to and which watch you are wearing and what did you shoot last week?

I never wanted to be the great guy or the colorful guy or the interesting guy. I wanted to be the guy who won titles.

In lawn tennis mixed, the basic chivalry move is to pretend to serve less fiercely to the woman than to the man. This is particularly useful if your first service tends to be out in any case.

In my mind, I'm always the best. If I walk out on the court (and) I think the next person is better, I've already lost.

In the history of women's tennis the great players have come back from long absences with no problems.

In tennis, at the end of the day you're a winner or a loser. You know exactly where you stand... I don't need that anymore. I don't need my happiness, my well-being, to be based on winning and losing.

In tennis you move a lot. Golf you dont. In tennis, you can have a bad half-hour, but you cant in golf. You can lose the first set in tennis and still win.

In the current [Carter] administration, who can use the White House swimming pool and tennis courts is decided at the very highest level. President Ford did not bother himself with such minor details. He let me swim in the pool. He only got upset when I tried to walk across the water.

In the sports arena I would say there is nothing like training and preparation. You have to train your mind as much as your body.

In the States, tennis is sixth or seventh on the totem pole as far as sports go.

I often surprise myself. You can't plan some shots that go in, not unless you're on marijuana, and the only grass I'm partial to is Wimbledon's.

In the tennis world, there weren't a whole lot of Asians playing. You see it a little bit more now. The same can really be said for basketball.

I often make the analogy with tennis. Every match the rules are the same, but no game is ever the same. Theatre is like that. Every time is different.

I think I will always stay involved in tennis and would like to give back by helping out young players. I have done a little commentary and may one day enjoy doing that again.

I really enjoy playing with someone else and whether it's chess or tennis or games, I love card games. I love that, but I think there's something so important to gain from winning and losing and learning how to lose and how you can be better from that.

I spent a whole year when I was injured just trying to get my arm back to the point where I could hit a tennis ball for more than 30 minutes a day. I'd hit for 15 minutes and it would feel as if my arm was going to fall off.

I still break racquets, but now I do it in a positive way.

It's more a tennis problem than a mental problem. The transition is difficult. It depends how much time you have. Playing on grass can sometimes be a bit of a lottery.

It is very important not to think about losing.

It's actually what I consider legalised cheating because one of the great senses that you have on a tennis court is your ability to hear the ball come off your opponent's strings [on Sharapova grunting

It's just nice to see people enthusiastic about their tennis and want to learn and improve - for me that's the most important thing - I still love my tennis.

I train Monday through Saturday. I usually have fitness training for 90 minutes, then I'm on the tennis court for 3 to 4 hours.

I try to avoid doing movies where I act with tennis balls. It's ultimately incredibly tedious.

It's been predictable, in the sense of 'expect the unexpected'.

It's like love. When you look too hard, you don't find it. When you let it happen naturally, it comes.

It's pretty hard being a tennis player and Mother Theresa at the same time and that's just the way it is.

It's quite clear that Virginia Wade is thriving on the pressure now that the pressure on her to do well is off .

I used to be told if I talked about my sexuality in any way that we wouldn't have a tennis tour.

It was so inspiring for me to watch tennis growing up. I thought I was really good playing, until my brother told me I wasn't!

It was very hard for me to practice and enjoy my tennis, and I didn't know the why, so I worked with psychologists to try and see what was happening. They pushed me really hard.

I used to get nervous, you know if my parents would come watch. And then I would get nervous if my friends came and watched. Today it's not a problem anymore actually, because now I enjoy it. I see that they, you know, respect me immensely, and I try to put on a good show and show that I can still play very good tennis.

I've always said I'm a good horse but I'm still an underdog.

I was always in the tennis business-from 1968. I was in tournaments and also on World Team Tennis teams as well.

I've stayed calm when I'm winning and I've stayed calm when I've lost. Tennis is a sport where we have a lot of tournaments every week, so you can't celebrate a lot when you have big victories, and you cannot get too down when you're losing, as in a few days you'll be in the next tournament and you'll have to be ready with that.

I want to be remembered as a great player, but I guess it will be as a player who got angry on a tennis court.

I want to reach absolute perfection. And I think I can reach it.

I was a professional tennis player in my teens. I played mostly in Europe. I was top 10 in the world in juniors, and then I messed up my back. I had three herniated discs and that put a stop to it.

I was a very good tennis player in Ottawa, Canada - nationally ranked when I was, like, 13. Then I moved to Los Angeles when I was 15, and everyone in L.A. just killed me. I was pretty great in Canada. Not so much in Los Angeles.

I was glad to watch the soccer because it helps my tennis game, realize maybe they're just rooting for the underdog.

I would like to see it go back to the wood racquets. To see the touch put back in tennis.

I was too young to take it all in. I was too young to even realize I was young. I was just living my life.

I was passionate about soccer. I still am. Odd, though - playing soccer always made me much more anxious than playing tennis. On soccer days, I'd be out of bed by 6 in the morning, all nervous. But I was always calm when it was time for a tennis match. I still don't know why.

Martina's like the old Green Bay Packers. You know exactly what she's going to do, but there isn't a thing you can do about it.

My mom fed us a million balls. Dad took us to tournaments. Couldn't have done it without them. We had a happy tennis family.

My feelings are Yevgeny Kafelnikov should take his prize money when he is done here and go and buy some perspective.

My fines? I pay more fines than some guys' career prize money on the tour.

My father had never watched tennis, never liked tennis too much. He said, 'OK, we buy a racket, we watch together,' because we didn't know anything. It was a process of learning together that made it more interesting.

My shoulder's not where I want it to be, but I'm doing a good job of monitoring it.

Never give up. Take what life throws at you and throw it right back. If life keeps throwing then you have a tennis match going. Learn to like tennis.